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It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education is a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I arrived. (Quote by - Charles Darwin)

I hope that knowledge about past facts will continue to be passed down in a proper manner .. and will be used for future benefit. (Quote by - Emperor Akihito)

The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re- proved, a continual quest for an ever- receding Holy Grail. (Quote by - Marc Feigen Fasteau)

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us. (Quote by - George Bataille)

Facts do not 'speak for themselves', they are read in the light of theory. (Quote by - Stephen Jay Gould)

Sometimes paranoia's just having all the facts. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)

The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co- operation. (Quote by - Charles Horton Cooley)

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. (Quote by - Evan Esar)

I have always found that if I move with seventy- five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy. (Quote by - Lee Iacocca)

God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion. (Quote by - Dan Castellaneta)

The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case. (Quote by - Aristotle)

A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes. (Quote by - Claude Bernard)

Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning. (Quote by - Marlo Thomas)

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words. (Quote by - Thomas Huxley)

In fact, .. Jesus is mentioned 75 times in the Koran. (Quote by - Ken Blanchard)

There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible. (Quote by - G. Wilhelm Leibniz)

Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house. (Quote by - Henri Poincar)

People have always thought of me as someone who's very classical,when in fact I've led a rather unconventional life. (Quote by - Catherine Deneuve)

Maternity is a matter of fact, paternity is a matter of opinion. (Quote by - American Proverb)

Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them. (Quote by - William James)

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)

It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain. (Quote by - Dave Barry)

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them. (Quote by - Augusto Roa Bastos)

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